Fedora Artwork Guidelines

There are basic rules and guidelines that all artwork in Fedora must follow. We have outlined many of them below. Other rules may also apply.

Basic Rules

Submissions should be made in formats that can be read by software available in Fedora Core and Fedora Extras. Preferred image formats include SVG and PNG. Preferred sound formats include WAV, FLAC and OGG Vorbis. Master files, which may be further edited, should be maintained in non-lossy formats. Preserving vector graphics, raster layers and channels is important for such materials.

No Fedora artwork should contain hats, particularly fedoras. This is a matter of respect for our biggest sponsor, Red Hat, Inc., and is not negotiable. Of course, passive appearance of hats, such as those upon heads in a crowd, may be tolerable.

All contributions must be covered by the Contributor License Agreement . We cannot accept contributions from individuals who have not signed the CLA in the Fedora Account System . The CLA allows us to properly license artwork submissions for distribution with Fedora Core and other Fedora projects.

Submissions must respect artwork licensing. If your submissions consist of artwork created by other people, please make sure the license of the original work you incorporate is compatible with Fedora and that you are not violating any of the provisions of its license. Just because a work is licensed with a Creative Commons license does not mean it is free to use (make sure you provide attribution to artists that license their work with a CC Attribution clause.)

No version numbers. End users might prefer to continue to use an older theme, or use the latest theme in their older version of Fedora. To enable that choice, do not use any version numbers within the Fedora artwork.

Submitting Your Ideas

ThemeConcepts - What will Fedora look like in the future? What should it's theme be? Artistic concepts welcome here, whether in the form of textual brainstorming or art mockups.

Backgrounds - Backgrounds are more frequently changed by users than other types of 'themes' - submit any Fedora-themed wallpapers you've created here.

Icons

Bluecurve Icon Theme

The Bluecurve Icon project is located at [1] . Please refer to that site for any of your Bluecurve needs.

Echo Icon Theme

EchoDevelopment - Gallery for new icons and to track development. Planned to be the default icon set in Fedora Core 7.

Application-Specific Icon Development

Release-Specific Artwork

ThemingOverview - You can theme a lot of components of Fedora - GDM, metacity, GTK, icon themes, Anaconda, RHGB and many others. Here's an overview of the things you can theme in Fedora and some resources for doing it.

Widgets - All websites and user interfaces are full of widgets, such as buttons, banners and captions. Submit your Fedora-specific widgets here.

Contributing

While filing bug reports and providing feedback is extremely valuable, we also need help to create the original artwork. If you would like to contribute to the project, please complete the following steps:

After you have completed these steps, you can begin contributing to the project. Most submissions will be added to the wiki or through CVS. Ask on the mailing list or IRC if you have questions or would like suggestions.

Communicate

Mailing List

IRC

You can chat live with other members of the Artwork team in the #fedora-art channel on freenode .

Bug Reporting, Testing, and Quality Assurance

Before you file a bug, please read through the list of current and previous bugs for redhat-artwork to determine if your bug has already been filed. If your bug does not exists, enter a bug report using the Bugzilla bug entry page . If your bug exists and has not been fixed, add additional information to the existing bug. If your bug exists and has been fixed, upgrade to the version in the bug report to determine if the bug was properly fixed. If it was not, reopen the bug.